░ ▒ ▄█ ▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀████ ▓ ▄ ▀▀▀ ▄▀ █▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀█████▀ ▀ ░ ░ ░░ █▓▓█ █ ▄ ▄▀ █ ░ ░ ░░ █▓▓█▌ ▒ ▒ ░░ ████ █ ▄ ▀▄▀ ▄█ █ ▒ ▒ ░░ ████ ▓ ▓ ░░ █ █▀▄ ▄▀ █ █ ▓ ▓ ▀ █░░█ ░░░░░░░ █░░█ ▀ █ █ █░░█ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀█ ░▒▓██████████▓▒░ █▒▒█ ░░ █▒▒█ ░░░░ █ █ █▒▒█ ░░ ░ ░ █ ░▒▓████████████▓▒░ ▄▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄▄▄ █▓▓█ ░░ ████ █▓▓█ ░░░░ ▓ █ █▓▓█ ░░ ▒ ▒ ▌ ▓█ ▓█ ██ ▓█ ████ ░░ ███▀ ████ ░░░ ▒ █ ████ ░░ ▓░░▓ ▄█▀▀▓██▄ ▄█▄ ▓ █▐█▀▄ ▒█ ▒█▀██ ▒█▀ ▀███▌ ░ ▀ ████ ░░ ░ █ ▀███▌ ░ █▒▒█ ▓█ ▄▒█▄▀ ▀ █▌▒ █▐▓▄▀ ░▀ ░▀ █ ▀█▄█▄ ▀███▄ ▄▀▀▀▄ ▀██ ░ ▓ ▀███▄ █▓▓█ ▒█ █░█ ██ █▌░ █▌▒ ░ ▀▀▀▀ █▄ █ ▒ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀▀█ ▀ █ ▄▀▀ ▀▀ ░ ▓█▀▀ ▄▀▄ ░ █▌█▄▐ ▄ ▄█▀ ▀ ▓▄ ░ ▄▀▄▀█ ░ █▌▄▀██ ▀ ▄ ▄ ░▒▓████████▓▒░ ▒█ ▓█ █▌▒ █▌▓█▀▄█▐▓ ▄▓ ▒█ ▓█ ▀ █ ▒ █▌▀▄ ▓▐█ ░░ roy ░▒░ ░█▌ ▀█ █ ▓ █▌▒█ █▐▒ █▒ ░█ ▒█ █ ▓ █▌ ▓█ ▒▐█ ▄ (sac) ▀▀ ▀ ▀▀ ░█ █ ▀▀▀ ░ ▀▀▀ ░▀ ▀ ▀▀ ▀▀▀ ░ ▀▀▀ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ █░█ █▓█ General Info : █▓█ Title .........: Action Packed: The Best Of █▓█ Artist ........: Jonathan Richman █▓█ Music Style ...: Rock █▓█ Type ..........: Album █▓█ Release Date ..: Feb-28-2003 █▓█ █▓█ Used Tools : █▓█ Grabber .......: EAC █▓█ Encoder .......: FHG Radium MP3 Codec v.1.263 █▓█ █▓█ Additional Info: █▓█ Source ........: CDDA █▓█ No. Of Songs ..: 22 █▓█ Size ..........: 96,9 MB █▓█ Playtime ......: 70:23 min █▓█ URL ...........: www.rounder.com █▓█ Label .........: Rounder █▓█ Quality .......: 192kbps / 44,1kHz / HQ / Full Stereo █░█ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀ █▄ ░ ▀▀▀▀█▄▀▀▀▀█▄▀▀▀▀██▀ █▄ ██ ▄█▀██▀ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░ ▐ ██▄ ██▄█▀ ▄█ ██ ▄█ ▀ ██▄█▀ ▀█▄▄ ░▒▓████████████████████████████████▓▒░ ░ ▐ ██ ▄█ ██ ██ ██▀██ ██ ▄ ██ ██ ▄ ██ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░ █ ▀█▄██ █▀ ▀█ █▀ ▀█ ▀█▄██▄ ██ ▀█ ██▄█▀ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ █ ▄ █░█ █▒█ █▓█ 01 ::: Circle 1 ::: 02:37 █▓█ 02 ::: New Kind of Neighborhood ::: 02:45 █▓█ 03 ::: Action Packed ::: 02:58 █▓█ 04 ::: Everyday Clothes ::: 03:08 █▓█ 05 ::: Fender Stratocaster ::: 02:57 █▓█ 06 ::: Closer ::: 03:26 █▓█ 07 ::: Reno ::: 04:04 █▓█ 08 ::: Since She Started to Ride ::: 02:36 █▓█ 09 ::: You're Crazy for Taking the Bus ::: 02:35 █▓█ 10 ::: The Neighbors ::: 02:48 █▓█ 11 ::: The Girl Stands Up to Me Now ::: 02:30 █▓█ 12 ::: Cappuccino Bar ::: 03:34 █▓█ 13 ::: When I Say Wife ::: 01:43 █▓█ 14 ::: She Doesn't Laugh at My Jokes ::: 02:00 █▓█ 15 ::: Monologue About Bermuda ::: 07:11 █▓█ 16 ::: Parties in the USA ::: 04:48 █▓█ 17 ::: I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar ::: 03:46 █▓█ 18 ::: Una Fuerza Alla (A Higher Power) ::: 03:24 █▓█ 19 ::: The Heart of Saturday Night ::: 01:57 █▓█ 20 ::: Vampire Girl ::: 03:37 █▓█ 21 ::: City Vs Country ::: 02:33 █▓█ 22 ::: You Must Ask the Heart ::: 03:26 █▒█ █░█ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀ ██▀█▄ ▄█▀█▄ █▄ ░ ▀▀▀▀█▀ ▄█▀██▀ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░ ▐ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██▄ ▄█▄ ░ ▀█▄▄ ░▒▓██████████████████████████████████████▓▒░ ░ ▐ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ▄█ ██ ▄ ▄ ██ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░ █ █▀ ▀█ ▀█▄█▀ ▀█▄██ ▀█▄██▄ ██▄█▀ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ █ ▄ █░█ █▒█ █▓█ Jonathan Richman was one of rock's most eccentric and unpredictable █▓█ cult figures, a performer whose eternally childlike public persona and █▓█ seeming naivete - typified by songs like "Ice Cream Man," "Hey There █▓█ Little Insect" and "I'm a Little Aeroplane" - tended to obscure the █▓█ dexterity and craft of his music, which skirted from garage rock to █▓█ country to Latin stylings and back. Born May 15, 1951 in Boston, █▓█ Massachusetts, Richman began playing guitar at the age of 15, and █▓█ within a year was making his first public appearances. In 1969 he █▓█ relocated to New York, the home of the Velvet Underground (his central █▓█ musical influence), and spent his first two weeks in the city sleeping █▓█ on the Velvets' manager's couch. While working a series of odd jobs, █▓█ including a tenure as a foot messenger for Esquire magazine, Richman █▓█ attempted to find a venue to perform his music, but his simple songs █▓█ and adenoidal voice were roundly rejected; he ultimately moved back to █▓█ Boston in 1970, where he formed the first incarnation of the █▓█ influential proto-punk band the Modern Lovers with guitarist John █▓█ Felice, drummer David Robinson and bassist Rolfe Anderson. Within a █▓█ few months, Anderson had been replaced by Ernie Brooks, and █▓█ keyboardist Jerry Harrison stepped in for Felice; in 1972, the Modern █▓█ Lovers recorded the demos which comprised their seminal self-titled █▓█ debut, featuring long-standing Richman favorites like "Roadrunner," █▓█ "Pablo Picasso" and "Hospital." Problems with their label, however, █▓█ blocked the songs' release until 1976; at the same time, Richman █▓█ wanted to quiet the group's minimalist, garagey sound, leading to █▓█ their break-up in 1973. Eventually, Richman formed a new, acoustic █▓█ Modern Lovers with guitarist Leroy Radcliffe, Rubinoos bassist Greg █▓█ "Curly" Keranen and drummer Robinson. In 1977, they debuted with █▓█ Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, which emphasized the doo-wop █▓█ flavor and wry pop melodies that remained hallmarks of his career. █▓█ That same year, the group issued Rock & Roll with the Modern Lovers █▓█ (with D. Sharpe on drums) and scored a major European hit with the █▓█ instrumental "Egyptian Reggae." A year later, Richman went solo, and █▓█ in 1979 issued Back in Your Life. After a period of self-imposed █▓█ exile, he resurfaced in 1983 with Jonathan Sings! A series of strong █▓█ pop records followed, including 1985's Rockin' and Romance, 1986's █▓█ It's Time for Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers (recorded with █▓█ Andy Paley), and Modern Lovers 88. In 1990, he released the █▓█ self-explanatory Jonathan Goes Country; later, he made another left █▓█ turn with 1993's Jonathan, Te Vas a Emocionar!, a collection of █▓█ Latin-influenced songs performed entirely in Spanish. No matter what █▓█ path his music took, however, Richman's cult following remained █▓█ fiercely loyal, and saw its ranks expand courtesy of his frequent █▓█ appearances on the NBC program Late Night with Conan O'Brien; in 1998, █▓█ he was also prominently featured in the hit film comedy There's █▓█ Something About Mary. I'm So Confused appeared later that year. █▒█ █░█ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▀ [ best viewed in jane with lucida console ansi (size 8) ]